Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Rich Moore Quick Impressions: Usually movies based on video games… Well, I hate to be harsh. But… Remember that misguided Super Mario Brothers adaptation starring Bob Hoskins as Mario? If you answered that question “yes,” without following the word “yes” with the …
Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes Rating: R Director: Robert Zemeckis Quick Impressions: First off, let me just say that I am so jealous of Whip Whitaker’s son. I mean, let’s face it, that admissions essay is going to be phenomenal. With material like that, he can probably get a full …
Runtime: 2 hours, 52 minutes Rating: R Director: Andy Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski Quick Impressions: Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking how much I’d enjoy having the Wachowski Siblings over for a Halloween party because—well, I mean, how could that not be interesting? My alma mater required …
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes Rating: R Director: Martin McDonagh Quick Impressions: What a weird movie! Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to his (by some standards) hit debut feature In Bruges is easily the strangest film I’ve seen all year. That’s not an insult (or a compliment either, actually). Before …
Runtime: 2 hours Rating: R Director: Ben Affleck Quick Impressions: For the past several months, I’ve raved on an almost daily basis, “I’m so excited to see Argo.” And every time my mother’s been within ear shot, she’s blinked and asked blankly, “What’s Argo?” (Seriously, this has happened so often …
Runtime: PG-13 Rating: 1 hour, 42 minutes Director: Stephen Chbosky Quick Impressions: How often does a novelist get the opportunity not only to adapt his book for the screen but to direct the movie? Off the top of my head, I can think of no other novelist directors, so while …
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes Rating: PG Director: Tim Burton Quick Impressions: Hotel Transylvania is a fun, silly kiddie monster flick with lots of jokes, bright colors, and tender moments aplenty. Frankenweenie is a horror movie for children. There aren’t too many of those. Probably because such a formidable mob …
Runtime: 1 hour, 59 minutes Rating: R Director: Rian Johnson Quick Impressions: Looper ends at exactly the right moment, leaving things open for the inevitable sequel, Looper 2: A Whole Can of Worms. Seriously, I’ve loved Emily Blunt since The Devil Wears Prada and thought it was a terrible shame …
Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Genndy Tartakovsky Quick Impressions: Let’s begin with a riddle. Ready? “Why do demons like ghouls so much?” The answer, of course, is that “demons are a ghoul’s best friend.” As a girl whose intense obsession with princesses began in junior high …
Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes Rating: R Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Quick Impressions: My eyes hurt. I think that’s because I just stared intently at a movie screen for over two hours without blinking once. I feel like I’ve just been audited—no, sorry, processed. (For some reason, we’re pretending The …
